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Dorsey, Periscope’s Beykpour score on sit-in
TWITTER CEO Jack Dorsey was in Cannes last week. On the Money spotted Dorsey dining at the Carlton Hotel with Chief Operating Officer Adam Bain just ahead of their huge beach party held with Spotify.
The two had something to celebrate on Wednesday night after a congressional sit-in over gun-control laws.
The sit-in the lawmakers staged was blacked out by C-SPAN, so the congressmen and women turned to the Twitter-owned Periscope video streaming app to carry their protest.
When C-SPAN returned to the airwaves, it used a Periscope feed to report the news. “Wow,” tweeted Dorsey. Good news as well for Periscope CEO Kayvon Beykpour, who was schmoozing clients in Cannes, too.
Dolans’ to-do
The Dolans had a celebration lunch at Michael’s restaurant last Monday to mark their exit from the difficult business of running a cable operator.
The family closed on its $17.7 billion deal to sell Cablevision to European media company Altice. At the center of the fête was Cablevison’s 89-year-old founder and Chairman Charles Dolan (left). Fifty years earlier, he pioneered cable TV by launching the first urban cable system here and also founding HBO.
Among those at the retirement lunch were Dolan’s retired financial wizard Bill Bell; longtime government affairs executive Sheila Mahony AMC Networks Chief Executive Josh Sapan; MSG and AMC Vice Chairman Gregg Seibertert Chief Communications Officer Barry Watkins; and Cablevision’s communications chief for the past quarter-century, Charlie Schueler.
Dolan bade farewell to Cablevison,n, wishing his colleagues a good summer. In the meantime,, Dolan will keep himself busy as executive chairman of AMCC Networks and as control-ling owner of MSG.
War of rosés
The rosé wars in thee Hamptons are heating upp as summer gets into fullll swing.
VieVité Rosé from Provence, rovence, France, is upping its game.ame. Al-Although it’s only five yearsars old, it has shops in all 50 states, and in all the Hamptons hot spots, including Surf Lodge in Montauk, as well as in party cities LA and Miami.iami.
The company rings up 75 percent of its sales in the four months of summer.
VieVité competes head-ad-on with local rosés, including Wolffer Es-Estates, in Sagaponack, NY;; the popular Whispering Angel (also Provence); and hotelier Andre Balazs (Long Island). But VieVité has a Saint-Tropez pedigree — Domaine Sainte Marie is just west of Saint- Tropez, wherew it has about 100 acres of land proproducing the pink-hued rosé. Owner Tunch Doker was the Champagnes-Champa marketing manager for LVMH/ Moët Hennessy before starting VieVité with his wife, Aylin in Algan Doker. On the July 4th weekend, he’ll launch a limited edition 15-liter bottle, which, naturally, will be bigger than everyone else’s (it’s the equivalent of 20 bottles) and retails for about $1,200 at liquor stores, including Sherry-Lehmann. But it will go for up to $4,000 at Gurney’s Montauk Resort & Seawater Spa. DJ and entrepreneur Hannah Bronfman (pictured) will launch and drink from the huge bottle at Gurney’s on the Fourth. Other fans of the rosé include Naomi Campbell, Leonardo DiCaprio and NNick Jonas.
Macy’s mover
WhWhen Terry Lundgren steps down as chief executive of Macy’s next MMarch, some might compare him to the Energizer bunny. The aaverage Fortune 100 CEO is in charge for about nine years, and “I’ve ououtlasted most,” Lundgren told our LisaLis Fickenscher. Lundgren, who willwi hand over the reins to Macy’s vveteran Jeff Gennette next year, will bbe 65 and have held his job for 14 years. There isi no mandatory retirement age at Macy’s,Ma a spokesman said, adding,ing, “It hasha been Terry’s personal plan to retire fromf CEO duties at 65.”